[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

It's been my great fortune to have met countless players over the years. The majority of them are no longer with us now. My biggest regret is not taking up the open-ended offers to visit Al Lopez, Pee Wee Reese and Ted Williams that were extended to me from people who were mutual friends (and former teammates of those HOFers). Out of the three mentioned, I would have most enjoyed to have met Pee Wee, but he was in bad shape for much of his last ten years. There were a handful of players who offered to call both Lopez and Williams in order to "pave the way" (as they put it), but I always thought that guys of that stature had been bothered enough. Yeah, hindsight is 20/20.